View Post ABC ‘Nightline’ Wakes Up ABC Late Night Timeslot By Chris Ariens on Apr. 7, 2014 - 9:03 PM ABC’s “Nightline” averaged 1.67 million Total Viewers in the first quarter of 2014, giving ABC its best performance in the 12:35amET time period during a Q1 in 11 years, but drawing less than half the audience th ...
View Post TV Biz The Afternoon Ticker: Aereo, KLG, Merger… By Merrill Knox on Mar. 26, 2014 - 4:32 PM Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia tells Bloomberg TV’s Jon Erlichmanthat he has no backup plan if the court rules in favor of the broadcasters. TVSpy has more details. The “Today” show’s resident wine lover, Kathie Le ...
View Post CNN Anderson Cooper is ‘Totally Obsessed’ With Missing Plane Story By Jordan Chariton on Mar. 18, 2014 - 4:17 PM Anderson Cooper admits to being completely obsessed with the missing Malaysia Airlines story, which has been a ratings bonanza for him and his network. “I gotta say, I’m totally obsessed with it,” Cooper told Set ...
View Post ABC ‘Nightline’ Has Best Week Since November By Merrill Knox on Mar. 13, 2014 - 3:21 PM ABC’s “Nightline” drew its largest overall audience in more than three months — since the week of 11/25/13 — averaging 1,718,000 total viewers, 717,000 A25-54 viewers and 555,000 A18-49 viewers. Fue ...
View Post Funny Rachel Maddow on ‘Late Night,’ Judge Napolitano on ‘The Daily Show’ By Merrill Knox on Mar. 12, 2014 - 1:27 PM Some familiar cable news faces made the rounds in late night last night: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow appeared on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano visited “ ...
View Post Funny | NBC Brian Williams Responds to Baby Horrified by His Image By Jordan Chariton on Mar. 4, 2014 - 1:25 PM “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams had a response to the toddler who couldn’t stop crying upon seeing his image in a recent YouTube video. “It’s disturbing,” Williams said jokingly on R ...
View Post Funny | NBC New Anchor Team for ‘Weekend Update’ By Chris Ariens on Mar. 1, 2014 - 1:30 PM With Seth Meyers’s move to “Late Night” there’s a new anchor team for “Saturday Night Live.” Tonight SNL head writer Colin Jost joins Cecily Strong for Weekend Update, or as Strong now calls it, ...
View Post TV Biz The Morning Ticker: Farrow, Capus, Jost By Chris Ariens on Jan. 24, 2014 - 11:12 AM MSNBC host Ronan Farrow has bought a $1.495 million pad in Joe Scarborough’s neighborhood. The 982-sq. foot, Upper West Side unit is in a doorman building with a landscaped rooftop with views of the Hudson River, just like i ...
View Post SportsNewser | TV Biz Keith Olbermann: Current TV Co-Founder And Former VP Al Gore Was a ‘Clod’ By Alex Weprin on Aug. 14, 2013 - 5:04 PM Soon-to-be ESPN2 host Keith Olbermann is the subject of a lengthy profile by THR’s Marisa Guthrie. Olbermann talks about how he came to join ESPN, repairing the bridges he “napalmed” the last time he was there, a ...
View Post TV Biz The PM Ticker: ‘Magic Wall,’ ‘USA Strong,’ ‘Late Night’ By Alex Weprin on May. 13, 2013 - 4:18 PM In January of 2012, TVNewser told you that CNN was seeking to trademark the term “Magic Wall.” Well, it seems that the channel eventually thought better of the plan. A new filing with the US Patent & Trademark off ...